Slideshow: Tabletop Computers

Forget the keyboard, mouse, and display as you take this photo tour through the development of surface computing. The desk is the computer

Posted 1 Dec 2008 | 5:00 GMT

By Meredith Ringel Morris

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About the Author

Meredith Ringel Morris is a researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, where she studies human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. She is also an affiliate assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Morris received her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University; her dissertation introduced interaction techniques and user-interface designs for computer-augmented tabletops. She may be contacted at
merrie@microsoft.com
.